KINKI TEXAS

( born in Bremen, 1969 ) Singing cowboys, warrior crusaders, bandaged, partly skeletal figures … these are just some of the characters that populate Kinki Texas' paintings. The raw, somewhat unrefined appearance of these heroes and anti-heroes is matched by the roughness of the painterly gesture with which they have been captured on canvas: there is no trace here of a meticulous painting style; instead the works have a crude, garish finish. The visual motifs are accompanied by written words, some of which have been sprayed on, others scratched into the top layers of paint.